From the Richmond Dispatch, 4/17/1862, p. 2, c. 3

Wants Fumigating. – Residents in the
vicinity complain that the pavement in front of the St. Charles
Hotel exudes an odor peculiarly unacceptable to the olfactories. The
keepers of that popular place of resort will no doubt fumigate or
cleans the premises to prevent choleratic symptoms.